St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-18
Over the Warning Factions Of the
knights Of Labor General
Assembly.
The Administration Gets a Vote Of
Confidence and Endorsement
All Around,
But Barry and Bailey Will Stay and
the Board Must Now Do
Its Best.

turn yesterday and the result,
while unsatisfactory to both sides,
III all probability disposes of the
threatened disSension from the order
of the anti-Powderly faction. In
brief-as the outcome of Yesterdays
battle the board remains the same with
BAILEY and Barry retained, while Pow
derby has been practically Endorsed
through vote of confidence expressing
approval in the course of the board.
This was the seemingly paradoxicaI sit
uatiOn last night and will be the out
come unless POwderly takes the radical
step of offering his resolution which
some say he has already written and in
tends to offer.
The investigation" as the presen-
tation of charges against the POwderly
faction is termed was resumed yester-
gained the floor and made an address
sustaining the charges made by Barry
at Saturdays session. 1t is
understood that his remarks took
the form of general
denunciation, and were given In Ian
guage that was decidedly firceable. He
said the leading officers of the assembly
stood charged with series of crimes
against the order, which in court of
Justice would put them behind the bars.
The Knights of Labor is organized for
the purpose OF carrying out industrial
reforms
AND NOT POLITICAL SCHEMES,
of individuals. The investigation had
officers OF the board and carried out in
different sections of the country by
their tools, who had proStituted the
machinery of the order for the base pur-
poses of personal agrandizement. He
denounced John w. Hayes a wire
puller and seheming politician,
who had been sent around the country
OstenSibly using the funds of the order
for the advancement of labor interests,
but in reality using the money for a far
different purpose, at least the evidence
presented would indicate as much.
Concerning Powderly Bailey charged
that he had sold out the organization to
the Catholics, and had employed men
order without the knowledge of
the other officers to work for
the interests of the church within the
order. He claimed the resolution of the
committee On law, reducing the eXecu-
tive board to five members, was a
scheme to get himself and Bailey out of
the way. He claimed that his assembly,
as we'll as himself, had been treated by
POwderly in manner that clearly indi-
Gated this. Communications sent from
his assembly, d. A. 1876, of Ohio, had
never been reported by the general
secretary. In closing he stated that he
should not resign, but if removed from
the board by the effect of the resolution
he and his friends would leave the
assembly.
General Secretary Litchman, in reply,
denied the charge that any papers from
District Assembly 135 had been sup
pressed, and reiterated Powderly's
statement that Donnelly, the stenog-
rapher at the general officer, was a
paid spy in the interests of the Barry
Bailey crowd.
AT THE AFTERNOON SESSION
things came to focus, and the result
was something of surprise to the
! Powderiy side. First, the resolution re-
ducing the membership to four and in
creasing the power of POwderIy, was
defeated by vive-vOce vote.
Then came resolution from the Pow
derby, Or administration side, calling
for the resignation of all members of
the general executive board, and the
general officers Barry and Bailey, who
of course suspected that if this
was done, a reelection would
follow which would effeetually
dispose of them, refused to comply.
Powderly, Aylesworth, Mcclure. Hayes,
Carleton, Litchman and Turner
promptly offered their designations.
Seeing that Barry and Bailey would not
leave, the assembly by vote of lie to
63, refused to accept the designations
offered, and by a vote from which only
% diSSented, passed a resolution in
HOrcipr without una1ifioa oil 4l,o
acts of Powderly and the other mem
bers of the board, and expressing i'm
plicit confidence in them.
The regular order of business SeDse-
quently transacted, as furnished by the
committee on publication, is as follows:
The committee on law reported in favor
of changing article Is, section Is, of the
constitution, which is as follows: 'sThat
the elective officers of the general as
Sembly should consist of a general mas
ter workman, general worthy foreman,
general secretary and general treasurer.
GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD OF SIX
man, no three of which to be from the
same state, and a cooperative board of
six. The committee favored an amend
ment which favored the addition of a
general investigator and a cooperative
board of four instead of six.
Delegate Blaine. of ID. A. No. so. of
Massachusetts, offered a substitute,
making the executive board consist of
six members in addition to
the general master workman,
cooperative board of five, and
general investigator with secretary,
both women to inquire into the indus
trial condition of women, the officers to
be elected annually after the October
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date of holding elections was withdrawn
and the substitute was then put and
lost. The report of the committee was
also voted down. 1t was then voted to
amend the article in question by insert
ing the office of general Investigators
among the general Offices. The recon-
mendatiOn of the committee changing
section 16, so as to make the term of the
general officers one year instead of two,
was also lost.
The recommendation of Mary Hama
fin, chairman of the Womans' commits
sion, that department of womanS'
work should be created under the direc-
ton of a general investigator, who
should travel. and have a woman seere-
tary, who should have headquarters at
Philadelphia, and maintain a CORE
spOndence in the interest of working
women throughout the country, was
referred.
AN ALLIANCE OFFENSIVE AND DE-
FENSIvE.
The following resolutions, presented
by Ralph Beaumont, were adopted:
Your committee appointed to meet the
committee of the Farmers Alliance submit
the following:
Whereas, Both committees being agreed
that the evils of which the farmers and me-
chanics and laborers complain are the re-
suits of unjust laws enacted in the interest of
chartered corporations; therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this
joint committee that the most feasible method
to redress those evils is for each organization
to maintain at the national capital COM
mittee from each, to consult and confer to-
.gether with q view to securing such leoisla-